Cyphosticha Meyrick, 1907

Prins, Jurate De, Hartley, Diana, Sruoga, Virginijus, Nicholls, James, Wallace, Jesse & Zwick, Andreas, 2025, Diversity of Australian Ornixolinae (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) with taxonomic and nomenclatural acts within the related taxa (Acrocercopinae and Gracillariinae) based on the evidence of museomics, bionomics, and mitogenomics, Zootaxa 5616 (1), pp. 1-340 : 40

Cyphosticha Meyrick, 1907 , syn. n.

“ Cyphosticha , n. g. ”— Meyrick, E., 1907. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 32: 49 (key), 61 .

Type species: Gracilaria [sic] pyrochroma Turner, 1894 , by original designation.

BOLD data: Cyphosticha | Taxonomy Browser | BOLDSYSTEMS

GenBank data: Cyphosticha - Nucleotide - NCBI (nih.gov)

Synonymisation Act. Herewith, we synonymize the genus Cyphosticha Meyrick, 1907 syn. n. with the genus Cuphodes Meyrick, 1897 following the morphological and phylogenetic evidence, which is based on detailed micromorphology and on full mitogenomic data as presented in this revisionary work. We propose to consider the Cuphodes genus-group taxon as a monophyletic clade. The Cyphosticha subclade and its type species Gracilaria [sic] pyrochroma Turner, 1894 nests between two other subclades of Cuphodes ( Fig. 637). The Principle of Priority (Art. 23.3) requires that a genus-group taxon formed by bringing together into a single taxon of the same genus-rank two previously established genera Cuphodes Meyrick, 1897 and Cyphosticha Meyrick, 1907 takes the valid name following the Principle of Priority (Art. 23.1) and Purpose (Art. 23.2). Following the Principle of Priority (Art. 23.1) the valid name applied in this case is Cuphodes Meyrick, 1897 . Under the objectives of the Code, the Principle of Priority is used in this particular case to promote the stability of nomenclature (Art. 23.2). This synonymisation act of two genus-group taxa will affect the nomenclature of the following species-group taxa: